Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to media reports that Dean Mighell, the Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, spent $80,000 from his own workers’ redundancy fund, Protect, on an extraordinary trip to London that included business class flights, meals, drinks, valet service, internet, in-house movies, booze and other items including a phone call to a transsexual escort by the name of Suzana. Is this an appropriate use of workers’ redundancy funds? Is the Acting Prime Minister aware that the member for Deakin is a former organiser for the redundancy fund? Can the Acting Prime Minister assure the House that the member for Deakin was not involved in the distribution of almost $1.4 million of the funds that were used to buy a house for Kevin Harkins, the union’s state secretary and former candidate for the Labor Party at the last election?

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